Brent Hallenbeck, the Arts & Entertainment reporter for the Free Press, comments on music

Phish guys playing benefit for Pete’s Greens

Page McConnell (left) and Jon Fishman (dress) will break away from holding hands with Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon long enough to play Higher Ground on Feb. 3.

This is such new info that Higher Grounddoesn’t even have it on its Web site yet, but word is that Jon Fishman and Page McConnell of Phishwill join several Vermont musicians for a benefit Feb. 3 at Higher Ground for Pete’s Greens, the Northeast Kingdom organic vegetable farm severely damaged by fire last month (here’s an articleabout the fire). Along with half of the members of Vermont’s most famous band, other Vermonters on the bill for the concert include Russ Lawton and Ray Paczkowski (both of whom play with Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio’s solo band), Bob Wagner, Joshua Panda, Jer Coons and a couple of guys from The Grift, Peter Day and Clint Bierman. Tickets are going on sale at 11 a.m. Friday. I’ll pass along more info when I get it.